Facebook Grader Fuels Arington-Lemeur Battle
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks quietly developing Facebook Grader, a tool to measure a person’s reach and authority on Facebook. Soon I will post more details about the application and how it was built, but for now I wanted to share some of the drama that has come about because of it.
Last night, TechCrunch wrote about Facebook Grader and a battle between Loic Lemeur and Michael Arrington broke out in the comments. I have to assume this is a (mostly) jovial exchange, but the comments are definitely amusing. In the article Arrington wrote, “French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur is ‘outraged’ that it doesn’t take into account that he has a fan page, for example (I find fan pages obnoxious myself), and gave him a score of only 97.6. C’est la vie.”
Arrington later commented, “Somebody should just spoof up a new tool for Loic that gives him a 100 every time.”
Lemeur eventually responded, “Michael, you are just brilliant, and I don’t even mean like licking your ass.”
Later the exchanges switched to video, using Seesmic, the company where Lemeur is CEO:
Arrington’s (final?) response:
All in all the launch of Facebook Grader has been an eventful one, with coverage from both TechCrunch and Mashable, two sites I love and I’m honored to have them feature my work.